mmagdalene:Are most men honestly this opposed to marriage? From what I can tell, a man's quality of life is generally greatly enhanced by marriage (assuming it's a happy one). Women these days tend to have more education than their male counterparts, and while we certainly don't earn money on par with men, why on Earth do men think that women are trying to "trap" them into marriage, only to take half "their" stuff? In many marriages, it's still the women who do the heavy lifting; working, the physical toll of pregnancy and childbirth, child-rearing, keeping the household running and maintaining the family's social connections. Frankly, it's often women who get the short end of the stick, so to speak

If any of what you just wrote is remotely true, you have just destroyed my soul and my will to live. On the other hand, if any man is married to your strawperson with all of the aforementioned attributes, he probably has to hear about it every day.